The event, hosted by activist groups Fight for the Future and Demand Progress, was focused on a short new documentary, referred to as simply “The NSA Video.” After gathering in Washington Square Park, the hosts marched the crowd to a nearby sidewalk and projected the film against New York University’s Jack Skirball Center.

Narrated by Lost’s Evangeline Lilly, the film hit the laundry list of activist concerns about spying: concerns the agency violates the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, that its programs were only authorized by the classified Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, and “the U.S. government has turned the Internet we love into something we never intended it to be: a tool for surveilling everyone.”

The crowd was made up largely of 20-somethings. When the film mentioned Edward Snowden, the former NSA contractor who leaked agency documents and kickstarted the movement, the crowd cheered.

“Fuck NSA surveillance!” one man yelled during the video.

“The NSA Video” is now on YouTube and TheNSAVideo.com, where Fight For the Future hopes it will spark that same level of outrage.

On Monday night in Washington, D.C., a woman walking to her Capitol Hill townhouse was grabbed by a man who told her to give him her wallet and phone. But where most of us would have happily parted with our possessions in order to escape unharmed, this victim took a different tack: She claimed to work for the National Security Agency, and that the agency would trace her phone if she lost it.